Hello, this is Rob carbon and on this page contact me, we have nothing whatsoever. So I'm going to show you how to create a contact page. So we go into the dashboard and plugins. You'll remember in a previous lesson, I searched for and installed and activated a plug in called contact form seven. And we're going to use that plugins functionality now. Now you'll notice in the left hand side that there is a link here that says contact.
Now that wasn't there before we activated that plugin. So you will find often plugins that add functionality to WordPress will actually add links along here somewhere Not always, but usually they do. Sometimes you find them in settings sometimes you find them in tools, sometimes their main headings but This is an example of a functionality that can be added to WordPress by a plugin. And remember, these plugins can be written by anyone. So you have to be quite careful in the ones that you choose. And I would recommend this particular plugin.
So we'll click here contacts. And you can make a lot of forms with the contact form seven plugin, but this particular one, they create one for you, and they give you this shortcode what you got to do is copy that Command or Ctrl C, and it actually works exactly how you want it to. And I'll show you now how it works. Go all pages, and we obviously want to edit the contact me page. And we paste in the contact form seven shortcode and updates. And now on the contact me page, I'm going to refresh and now you'll see a form but it still looks more professional to give people a full To fill out in order to contact you than just supplying your email address.
So if people fill out this form and send it, they get a thank you message. They'll also get error messages if they make a mistake with any of these fields. And that email will go to the email that you have in settings general there. However, if you wanted to change anything, then you can go into the contact form. And it's a little bit confusing, but there's more shortcodes here that you can get by clicking these buttons. You can specify where you want the mail to go if you don't want it to go to that email address that's in the settings, and all sorts of other things like that you can send the success message and the error messages.
Contact Form even has the ability to use different languages. Also, if you go into the contact me page, you're probably better off writing some text here, you may want to write your telephone number if you really want to put your number on the contact me page. So I've written there if you have any questions, or you would just like to say hi, please fill out the form below. I will answer within 24 hours. So update that. And now we'll look at the contact me page.
It looks a little bit better to see that text above the form. Okay, so that's how to create a contact form on the contact page. My name is Rob carbon. I'll see you in the next video.